The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-19
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Elsa"
For answer. he raised me from the couch
and quietly led me from the room, up the
Presently we stopped at a door. ''You had
see how calmly he sleeps"
sm Al f BsdrS9n the al foS %bi sRd ah Id B g. intR W. g
With o hand that Yisibly trembieSd he raised
the white c~oyerlet that hid something. The
child. There he lay, calm and still. his
natural eurls falling upon the pillow.
Elsa Enjoys nothing yet, " said the father,
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nOw7n
I assented In q bewiIderod way. Had
been unconscIous q whole night and day? |
thoughts, for the sky had the rosy flush which
the setting sun leaves behind, andtt Yves not
possible TO imagine that the peaceful little
fern l had Just seen had been recently in the
water.
az he led ne through one gallery after ain
other toward the west wing. 'Tell me, when
did see little CarI-in the lake, and where
did Elsa go when fainted?"
He stood still fora moment, regarding ne
You could not have seen Carl there, he
answered, with a tren?r IN his voice. He
Wssfound n hroughtin at 10 this morning,
hare imagined you saw him, after the shock
OF being told Of the accident.n
1 was absolutely certain about What had hap
saw ny one til after, when [ turned rennd;
then L saw Elsa looking ut me. Did this
really all happen to-nighf9"
A servant, approached us. IT think Mrs.
Cunningham Ii about to wake, "she said. We
went at once to her room. AS we were en-
tering, Mr.. Cunningham told me that she had
time 1t had lasted through the night and
vision Of the child and his mother was what
people call supernatural. I could not help re-
calling little Carl's words at Zermatt, Nom
ma and l shall die toge!her."
We entered, her dpsky hair sweeping them
like a shadow. Her eyes were epeQ, her
mouth smiling. She extended a hand to each
OF US. Never had l seen her with that radi-
that white-robsd little figure 1 had inst seen.
what agony she would suffer! But then /
remembered she vas not as other women-it
might be that she knew. A moment more
Jesus called, a little child to Him. " che
her beautiful face. ''''':Mht NY HUSBAND hiiS she
then rs said, bending q loving look upon him,
shall be only. spirit then, and two worlds
will not contest for my soul. Good-by, my
husband, Good,by, JOAN"
IL was al ever then; little Carl's words had
come true. 1he local paper STYLED CARTS
death from drowning an instance Of the care
lSsbneSs OF superior servants. 1t spoke OF
the death Of the child's neither as one from
f sho sf me world OF print knew nothing Of
than l have already. given, for Mr.. Coming
nam SHUT Up the hall apd vent to the East as
Formed. i - could 5aiIa S not quest question we're hin ps at
6uch a time. This nuch he volun-
teered. Elsa had from childhood been sub
1ect TO strange sleeps, during which she
was seen by friends in other places. She was
much panied by this. as she thought it sim
gled Der ont and separated her from the rest
OF the. world. Then her child had been born,
ana after that the uncanny part of her ma
tare grew aPace. She would describe to her
husband scenes which were being enacted q
HUNDRED miles away. The child shared it,
End seemed to reid his mothers every
thought.
Now that Elsa Cunningham was really seen
where her body was not | had proof enough
IN Eermatt to have satisfied most people, 1t
was 50 widely confirmed, But by what power
e @ she-for cannot but attribute the
come to behave that she could see and know
what others did not: but that she should be
able to compel my steps to tine lake and show
me the wrath of a past event, and allthfs as
she lay In her bed tended by an old servant
this is, and ever must be, iroxplicable.
l have never had any other supernatural
experience: l don't think | ever shall. And
this may be natural in the light of
science: Be it as 1t may. 1t has left no ter
rors behind to haunt me. Elsa's face was 30
diSInely happy. as she passed from us, and
much at peace.
| look forward to meeting the gentle
mother and her beautiful child some day-in
that day when my own divided life shall find
its ''other hell. "-BeloTaei1.